Not long ago, fiddler Vassar Clements attended a concert in Nashville of the fictitious heavy metal band Spinal Tap. Vassar was called up onstage to jam. Not realizing that the band was a spoof, Vassar simply dove in and fiddled […]
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R.L. Burnside demanded Canadian Mist and tomato juice before he performed, called the concoction a bloody muthafucka, and didn’t stop guzzling them until nearly the end. The end came September 1 at St. Francis Hospital, in Memphis Tennessee. No cause […]
Hurricane Rita huffed and puffed but did not blow down the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Because predictions said nearby Houston would suffer a direct hit, it was assumed ancillary storms would force cancellations of a portion or all of […]
Practically everybody in Tucson is from somewhere else. That’s partly because just about everybody from here moves away. So it was that the Hotel Congress 20th Anniversary weekend was a reunion of the diaspora. Fans flew in from all over, […]
Tom T. Hall told us in passing during the first of these three highly anticipated, sold-out “Artist in Residence” performances, “I’ve asked a lot of people why we are doing this, intelligent people — and they didn’t seem to know!…Miss […]
Nothing in the couple hours that had come before could quite have hinted at the way Bruce Springsteen would end this solo show, with the possible exception that he both started and finished the night by casting the arena awash […]
Sufjan Stevens has embarked on an ambitious musical journey as he attempts to record an album for every state in the union. His tour in support of his second step in that direction, Come On Feel The Illinoise, was just […]
There was a lot to absorb even before the first act took the stage at the fifth annual Spread Your Wings benefit concert. Spread Your Wings began in 2001 when Missi Ivie and Bob Graham, great friends to Charlotte’s Americana […]
“Just when it seems like it’s absolutely pointless and useless to continue, there’s that little glimmer of the eternal that shines through and you realize that you’re going to make it through this thing.” The sticker continues to hang tough […]
There are a few things a musical bio-documentary ought to do well. It should catch the arc of the musical life at hand and focus on it. It should show, rather than just talk about, the key moments and salient […]
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